chancel
- n area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing
- But before his program was over, small groups had tiptoed up to the chancel to watch his hands fly over the four manuals (keyboards), and his patent-leather pumps dance over the .
- A mixed congregation of 600 gazed in interested bewilderment at a slim, bare-foot girl in the chancel.
- British and American flags hung side by side in the chancel last week, and another old Virginian, Lady Astor, helped to inaugurate it as "a symbolic shrine of Anglo-American .